On Time Quotes

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

By being remarkable, being genuine, you can be worth connecting with. And you don't have to have it figured out perfectly the first time - you can adjust.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

I've been very lucky as far as the things that I've picked, and the way they've worked out. I try to pass on stuff that looks like it's gonna be a bad time.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

This s - t [smoked on scenes] called Wizard Smoke. I didn't like it. [James] Franco didn't have that hard of a time with it. Franco will smoke anything.

To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.

I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them.

I shopped with G-Dragon a long time ago but now that we live together, I can't buy clothes with him.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.

Hank Williams was one of the greatest writers of all time, and it's very sad that his career lasted for only six years.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

I haven't had time to think about a relationship! I literally have not had a boyfriend in almost five years. I've never even hooked up with anybody I've worked on a movie with.

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.